Tae a Prickle

On picking ma fingur, while looking for bugs August, 2015

Wee, purple, proud, jabby prickle
O, what a pain ye gied ma chestie
Thou should na be sae hurty 
            Wi them barbed spurs,

I was be laith to try and pick thee
wi eye on colourful vases 
Am truly sorry the gardener lazy
         An has let ye grow asunder

an justifies that pretty colour 
which maks me reach, then pull away
my fingers, the poor hurt thingies 
Damn ye purple prickles.